Pages

September 24, 2007

Futher To My Canadian Assimilation

This morning, we are driving north for four days of Canadian cottage relaxation.

L and I and the dogs will be here, on Katchewanooka Lake. We are told the resort is 1.5 hours from Toronto (naturally).

There is wireless internet, so I can post, watch MLBTV and handle the game threads. The plan is to check the papers and post in the morning, then pretty much stay away from the computer until game time. If we're around, I'll put through comments every hour or so.

Jays replace AJ with Litsch. Buffy says Burnett was "called back home", no further explanation. That's usually fundie speak for he just croaked on us, but I think that would merit a bigger story. Gotta love them fucken Blow Jays. I hope the Sox are prepared to go 6-0.

Have fun experiencing the Kawarthas! Good area, I used to go up there every year as a kid (to Buckhorn Lake...not sure where it is in relation to your place) but hope your first taste of cottage life is good! The wireless internets isn't exactly "roughin' it" - but it is the last week of the season, and if I was going away I would want it too! haha...anyway have fun and as always, go sox

Not sure if anyone else watched this afternoon's game - I was watching on Buffyvision, and was incredibly fucking annoyed by what sounded like someone slamming 2 pieces of steel together every couple seconds. Did anyone else notice this too or am I'm slowly going mad...

Hi all! No inside dope on AJ, but Litsch is now my newest favourite non-Sox player.

We listened to the first two innings during the drive and the last two or three sitting by our little lake. Nice to hear the MFY unable to do the little things that they allegedly can do anytime they want.

Change of plans, however. My laptop is not working well here, so we will probably not have MLBTV. We will be able to at least follow GDGD on L's computer. (She reports her stomach is slightly less knotted. The vodka helps.)

That means the game discussion will have to be at ThreadSox for the Okaland mini-series.

I guess I'm out for game threads for the most part for the rest of the year, because I'll be at almost all the games.

Tim: You may have been hearing Freddy. At Yankee Stadium, this 82 year old dude with one eye walks around with a colorful sign with a different message each game, always starting with "Freddy Sez:".

Which would be fine and totally not annoying, if he didn't also carry around a pan that he (and anyone else who wants to) bangs on. With the stadium more than half empty today, his pan-banging may have been echoing a little louder.

Which would be fine and totally not annoying, if he didn't also carry around a pan that he (and anyone else who wants to) bangs on. With the stadium more than half empty today, his pan-banging may have been echoing a little louder.

Sounds pretty fucking stupid to me. That's probably what it was then, I went to the archived game on MLBTV to laugh at Reed Johnson's snafu at the end of the 8th and could hear it on the YES feed as well.

Too bad that ol pan smacky over there will probably be 6 feet under before he sees another MFY WS win, pan and all.

Should the Padres lose, the wild card would look like this: (very snug)

San Diego, --Philadelphia, --Colorado, 1 GBAtlanta, 3 GB

That is going to be a fun race to watch for this final week. I can't even predict who will win it. If you go by the old adage that good pitching will beat good hitting, then it's San Diego's wild card. But like I said last night, I am officially pulling for Colorado to come out on top.

Tim: You may have been hearing Freddy. At Yankee Stadium, this 82 year old dude with one eye walks around with a colorful sign with a different message each game, always starting with "Freddy Sez:".

We call him Freddy the Fascist. We once spotted him on the local news at a pro-cop-shooting rally at City Hall, where off-duty cops were jumping on top of cars and screaming racial slurs. Freddy was carrying a pro-cop-shooting sign.

Even without that extra touch, Freddy has always creeped me out. I don't find him annoying so much as creepy.

Jere, I could have had tickets to the game on Saturday night through work (an alumni event for the school), but we have a family bar mitzvah in Boston that day. I am already annoyed no end, but if they clinch on Saturday night, I will really pissed off! (Dumb bar mitzvahs also,L-girl.)

Amy--my wedding people are such big Sox fans, they have a "sports room" in their house, with all kinds of Sox souvenirs and stuff. And they still decide to have their wedding day on the last weekend of the regular season. Terrible! At least they chose September over October....

Jere, the bar mitzvah boy is also a diehard Sox fans, as are his three sisters and his parents. But I am sure they had no control over the date, and I am thinking that they may have a TV set up somewhere for people who want to check in on the game during the party. After all, it is in Newton, within about three miles from Fenway. Maybe we will hear the cheers from there.